Shannon Blunt

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, 2002
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, 2000
• B.S. (with honors) in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, 1999

Industrial Experience

• Radar Division - US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 2002-2005
  

Teaching

• EECS 412 Electronic Circuits II
• EECS 420 Electromagnetics II
• EECS 844 Adaptive Signal Processing

Research

• Adaptive Signal Processing for Radar and Communications
• Multistatic Radar
• Radar Pulse Compression
• Radar Waveform Optimization/Implementation
• Space-Time Adaptive Processing
• Array Processing
• Interference Cancellation
• Multi-user Communications
• Biomedical Imaging

Affliliations

• IEEE AESS Radar Systems Panel
• MSS Tri-Service Radar Symposium Program Committee
• Waveform Diversity Conference Advisory Panel

Memberships

• Senior Member IEEE
• IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
• IEEE Signal Processing Society
• Eta Kappa Nu
• Tau Beta Pi

Honors

• IEEE/AESS Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award, 2012
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research - Young Investigator Award, 2008
• Harry Talley Excellence in Teaching Award, KU EECS Department, 2008
• Miller Professional Development Award for Distinguished Research, KU School of Engineering, 2008
• Naval Research Laboratory Alan Berman Research Publication Award
  
• Bellows Scholar, School of Engineering, University of Kansas, 2010, 2011
  

Service

• Director, KU Radar Systems & Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL)
• General Chair, 2011 IEEE Radar Conference, Kansas City, MO
• Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems
• Editorial Board for IET Radar, Sonar, & Navigation
• Chair, Conferences Committee, IEEE AESS Radar Systems Panel
• Co-Chair, NATO SET-179 on Dynamic Waveform Diversity & Design
• Member, NATO SET-182 on Radar Spectrum Management and Engineering

Publications (Books)

• M. Wicks, E. Mokole, S.D. Blunt, V. Amuso, and R. Schneible, eds., Principles of Waveform Diversity and Design, SciTech Publishing, 2010.

Publications (Book Chapters)

• Chapter 8, "Multistatic & Waveform-Diverse Radar Pulse Compression," S.D. Blunt, T. Higgins, A. Shackelford, and K. Gerlach, in Waveform Design and Diversity for Advanced Radar Systems, eds. F. Gini, A. de Maio, and L. Patton, IET, 2012.
• Chapter B-I-4, "Intra-Pulse Radar-Embedded Communications," S.D. Blunt and J.M. Stiles, in Principles of Waveform Diversity & Design, SciTech Publishing, 2010.
• Chapter 7, "STAP via Knowledge-Aided Covariance Estimation and the FRACTA Algorithm," S.D. Blunt, K. Gerlach, M. Rangaswamy, and A.K. Shackelford, in Knowledge Based Radar Detection, Tracking, and Classification, John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Publications (Journal)

• S.D. Blunt, J.G. Metcalf, C.R. Biggs, and E. Perrins, "Performance Characteristics and Metrics for Intra-Pulse Radar-Embedded Communications," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (special issue on Advances in Military Networking and Communications), vol. 29, no. 10, pp. 2057-2066, Dec. 2011.
• S.D. Blunt, T. Chan, and K. Gerlach, "Robust DOA Estimation: the Re-Iterative Super Resolution (RISR) Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 332-346, Jan. 2011.
  
• S.D. Blunt, P. Yatham, and J. Stiles, "Intra-Pulse Radar-Embedded Communications," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 1185-1200, July 2010.
  
• M. Popescu, S.D. Blunt, and T. Chan, "Magnetoencephalography Source Localization using the Source Affine Image Reconstruction (SAFFIRE) Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 1652-1662, July 2010.
• S.D. Blunt and T. Higgins, "Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Efficient Adaptive Radar Pulse Compression," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 349-362, Jan. 2010.
  
• S.D. Blunt, A. Shackelford, K. Gerlach, and K.J. Smith, "Doppler Compensation & Single Pulse Imaging via Adaptive Pulse compression," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 647-659, Apr. 2009.
• A.K. Shackelford, K. Gerlach, and S.D. Blunt, "Partially Adaptive STAP using the FRACTA Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 58-69, Jan. 2009.
• S.D. Blunt, W. Dower, and K. Gerlach, "Hybrid Interference Suppression for Multistatic Radar," IET Radar, Sonar, & Navigation, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 323-333, Oct. 2008.
• M. Popescu, E.-A. Popescu, T.-P. Chan, S.D. Blunt, and J. Lewine, "Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction of Bilateral Auditory Steady State Responses using MEG Beamformers," IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 1092-1102, Mar. 2008.
• S.D. Blunt,K. Gerlach, and J. Heyer, "A New HRR Detector for Slow-Moving Targets in Sea-Clutter," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 965-974, July 2007.
• K. Gerlach and S.D. Blunt, "Radar Pulse Compression Repair," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 1188-1195, July 2007.
• K. Gerlach, A.K. Shackelford, and S.D. Blunt, "Combined Multistatic Adaptive Pulse Compression and Adaptive Beamforming for Shared-Spectrum Radar," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 137-146, June 2007.
• K. Gerlach and S.D. Blunt, "The Factored-SVD Formulation and an application example," Digital Signal Processing, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 199-208, January 2007.
• S.D. Blunt, K. Gerlach, and M. Rangaswamy, "STAP using Knowledge-Aided Covariance Estimation and the FRACTA Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 891-903, July 2006.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Multistatic Adaptive Pulse Compression," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 1043-1057, July 2006.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Adaptive Pulse Compression via MMSE Estimation," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 572-584, April 2006.
• S.D. Blunt and K.C. Ho, "An Iterative Approximate MAP Symbol Estimator for Uncoded Synchronous CDMA," IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 1663-1673, July 2005.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Efficient Robust AMF using the FRACTA Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 537-548, April 2005.
• K.R. Gerlach, S.D. Blunt, and M.L. Picciolo, "Robust Adaptive Matched Filtering using the FRACTA Algorithm," IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 929-945, July 2004.
• K.C. Ho and S.D. Blunt, "Rapid Identification of a Sparse Impulse Response Using an Adaptive Algorithm in the Haar Domain," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 628-638, March 2003.
• K.C. Ho and S.D. Blunt, "Adaptive Sparse System Identification using Wavelets," IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems II, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 656-667, October 2002.

Patents

• S.D. Blunt, J. Jakabosky, M. Cook, J. Stiles, and S. Seguin, "Transmitter-Calibrated Radar Waveform Design," patent pending.
• S.D. Blunt, T.P. Chan, and M. Popescu, "Source Affine Image Reconstruction (SAFFIRE) for EEG/MEG Imaging," patent pending, application serial no. 61/013,544.
• S.D. Blunt and T. Higgins, "Computationally Efficient Adaptive Radar Pulse Compression System," US Patent #7,602,331, issued October 13, 2009.
  
• S.D. Blunt, A. Shackelford, and K. Gerlach, "Single Pulse Imaging Radar System and Method," US Patent #7,535,412, issued May 19, 2009.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Multistatic Adaptive Pulse Compression Method and System," US Patent #7,474,257, issued January 6, 2009.
• S.D. Blunt, K. Gerlach, and K.J. Smith, "Doppler Compensated Adaptive Pulse Compressor for Doppler-Tolerant Waveforms," US Patent #7,439,906, issued October 21, 2008.
• K. Gerlach and S.D. Blunt, "Radar Pulse Compression Repair," US Patent #7,298,315, issued November 20, 2007.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Method and Apparatus for Detecting Slow-Moving Targets in High-Resolution Sea Clutter," US Patent #7,286,079, issued October 23, 2007.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Doppler-Sensitive Adaptive Coherence Estimate Detector Methods," US Patent #7,212,150, issued May 1, 2007.
• K. Gerlach and S.D. Blunt, "Radar Processor System and Method," US Patent #7,193,558, issued March 20, 2007.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Robust Predictive Deconvolution System and Method," US Patent #7,106,250, issued September 12, 2006.
• S.D. Blunt and K. Gerlach, "Robust Predictive Deconvolution System and Method," US Patent #6,940,450, issued September 6, 2005.